Category: women
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FiLiA – across the divide
A feminist response to the ‘feminist response to the silence around October 7th‘ I was going to write about this event. I watched the video, I took notes, I asked for help and a friend with better ears than me gave me her notes. I thought about the sisters sitting there, about the sterling work…
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Viva FiLiA!
It’s three weeks now since I got my hands on a copy of Rahila Gupta’s ‘British Feminism Through a FiLiA Lens.’ I’ve been reading furiously ever since, and have only just emerged. 384 closely printed pages about all that FiLiA has instigated, inspired or been a part of over the last ten years. To say…
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FiLiA: I had a bit of a tantrum
What it feels like Having been bawled out of the Labour Party, union activism and a whole load of less important things over Palestine, the sex-and-gender issue or both, I have, like vast numbers of others, been trying to help set up locally to be ready for the re-birth of left politics. When I sent…
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Genocide was stalking the corridors of conference
I’m just back from day one of FiLiA, the biggest (and I’d say the best) feminist conference in Europe. No time to say much yet, but there was one very, very urgent message: During the opening speeches, Rahila Gupta reminded everyone that what’s happening in Palestine is not something anyone can afford to ignore. I…
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The big row in Hastings (round two)
So, let me see if I can get this right. Hastings Women’s Voice, who wouldn’t let the Women’s Rights Network have a stall at their last do because WRN stand up for women’s rights (Women’s Voice think people who stand up for women’s rights are anti-abortion) are standing up for Queers for Palestine because Hastings…
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Two out of three ain’t bad, Zara Sultana, but we need all three
Like the hundreds of thousands of people who’ve been so happy to see the New Left Party project get rolling, I read NLR’s interview with Zara Sultana with keen interest. Has she got what it takes to build on what the Corbyn movement in the Labour Party did a few years ago? There are so…
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This is what lefty feminism looks like
There’s something I’ve been busting to tell you for ages – and then I could, but all week, I haven’t (remember that feminist quip from the 1970s – I was going to start a revolution but I couldn’t get a babysitter?) I love Ros Sitwell. I’ve been trying to grab some time to write about…
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The Gish gallop
This is the 3rd in my ‘time savers’ series, for activists who are horrified to see the same hollow arguments of the gender ideology cult doing the rounds again. Thanks to JH for drawing my attention to this one. As always seems to happen, an example turned up on a local page and exasperated a…
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Many a mickle…
This is the second of the occasional ‘timesavers’ series I promised I’d write because after the Supreme Court ruling clarifying the categories of protected characteristics in the 2010 Equality Act, all the old myths were going around again and, like many women I know, I didn’t really want have to constantly repeat all the same…
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The ageist, sexist woke v nasty old Billionairesses
Disclaimer first: I believe unequivocally that any government with its people’s interests at heart would run its finances in such a way that it would be impossible to become ‘super rich’. That said, two statistics stick in my mind. Number One: J K Rowling is, as far as I know, the only billionaire who’s ever…
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